Word: victim
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reddish and only ¼in. long, the fire ant has a peculiar talent: it chews a slit in the skin of its victim, lifts the skin with its mandibles, curves its abdomen under its body and injects a dose of fluid which causes fiery pain, raises angry welts, and may form a pocket of pus. Victims highly sensitive to ant poison may be hospitalized for weeks; a baby in New Orleans was killed by the ants...
...playwright with an Aztec Red convertible. When Humbert sees Lolita again she is a post-nymphet 17, pregnant and married to a wholesome ex-G.I. But she still loves the playwright, and in a hilarious and nightmarish murder scene Humbert pumps bullet after bullet into him while the victim protests with phony British aplomb: "Ah. that hurts, sir, enough! Ah, that hurts atrociously, my dear fellow. I pray you, desist...
Invariably he is told that his intended victim has no office, and that perhaps he should write a letter to the editors. But sometimes he will not be put off, and so I have to explain that I am the very loudmouth he seeks, and that since I have no office I will try to choke down a cup of Bick's coffee with...
...kids caught on, soon gathered the supporting cast that still appears in both strips: long-suffering Mama; Der Inspector, a white-bearded truant officer; and Der Captain, a seafaring disciplinarian ("Spare der rod und spoil der brat"), who is Mama's star boarder and the pranksters' perennial victim...
...foil, Mike Klapper won the only bout (over N.Y.U.'s top man) as the Crimson dropped the event, 8 to 1. Peter Boyce was a victim of nausea during his first two losses, and Dick Johnson replaced him in the third round. Captain Hubert Hocutt was winless...